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...deans by dozen-this soft-spoken Kaiser-dean...
...Pittsburgh last week the Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp., largest U.S..producer of stainless steel, lopped 2% off its prices on key grades "to make ourselves competitive." Coming hard on the heels of a recent 12% price slash by California's Kaiser Steel Corp.. which virtually eliminated the historic differential between Eastern and Western steel, and last month's sharp reductions (as much as 19%) in posted prices by the Aluminum Co. of America, the Allegheny Ludlum move was the latest evidence of a general softening in the prices of industrial materials. According to the Labor Department...
...Assist for the Kaiser. Fokker's past is not all friendship. The company was founded in 1913 in Germany by a ruthless, conniving aircraft designer named Anthony Fokker, who shucked off his allegiance to The Netherlands to build military aircraft for the Kaiser. Baron von Richthofen and his Flying Circus battled to fame in Fokker triplanes. After Germany's defeat, Anthony Fokker slipped back into The Netherlands, taking along six trainloads of tools and aircraft parts, and set up a new plant. His dependable F-VII monoplane spawned the rise of commercial airlines in the 1920s...
...Join 'Em." With financial backing from Kaiser and technical guidance from onetime Utah Cowpuncher Pearce, the Brazil nuts went ahead anyway. U.S. engineers converted an old foundry to make Willys' castings, began building the sprawling, efficient plant at Sao Bernardo. The Brazilians set about lining up parts suppliers. A manufacturer of hypodermic needles converted his production to gas and oil lines, and a blacksmith bid to supply wheels. Recalls Willys Treasurer Paulo Quartim Barbosa: "We gave him an order for 500 wheels. They weren't quite square-but almost. Our technicians found they had eight protruding points...
...emergency repair shops around the country, train mechanics to man them, and-provide spare parts. Eventually Pearce hopes to export from Brazil to other Latin American nations. In time, Willys do Brasil and its American cousin may even meet head on in a battle for export markets. Edgar Kaiser already foresees the possibility. Says he: "When that comes up, we'll just have to be competitive. We face competition when these countries industrialize, no matter whether we help them or not. So I say, 'Let's join...